So, let’s see: Tom Izzo gets busted for a game because he paid someone an honest wage to coach at a youth camp. Cam Newton’s father pimps his son out to at least one school, but Newton is still eligible to play an entire football season. Gotcha.

ESPN’s Andy Katz reports that this was actually finalized on Friday and Izzo got to select which game he sat out, but we still have a question: since the criterion for levying penalties is evidently What Did You Know — or, What Can We Prove You Knew — if Izzo didn’t know that the person he was paying was associated with a prospect, then why the suspension?

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The IAWP they hired tried to pull the same routine on other programs. Izzo knew full well the person was associated with the prospect. There is a 0% chance he didn’t know the prospect was connected to the person he hired.

Look, MSU gained an advantage on a recruit by trying to walk a fine line on a rule Izzo knows all about.